Vegetarian Quotes

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another!

I'm not a vegetarian, but I eat animals who are.

Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.

Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity, that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel." "As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.

I also became a vegetarian when I was 14 because I realized eating animals was cruel.

Animals can't really voice their opinion. We feel as though we can be on of the spokespeople on their behalf.

When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.

I can't think of anything better in the world to be but a vegan.

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace. But it's a small link. There are lots of other issues: apartheid , vivisection, political prisoners, the arms race. There's so much going on in this world today, so much ignorance among people. That's not to say I'm not standing amongst everybody. But the point is, what can we do now? That's the thing about vegetarianism; it's an individual's decision and it's something you have control over. How many things do we really have control over?

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.

To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.

Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.

Vegetarianism is a way of living consciously on the planet.

In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.

Vegetarians are hotter then meat eaters.

The more animal products you remove from your diet, the better you feel. The difference between vegetarian and vegan is huge. I feel so much better as a vegan.

I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.

Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.

We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?'

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.

It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.

I am a very strict vegetarian. ...I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values.